On Monday 28 April 2003 03:56, Pedro Salgueiro wrote: > Hi. > I'm making a deb package of a project that i'm working > on, and I need to know if a deb package can copy > something to a directory of a user's home. I have read > somewhere that a debian package can not toucth on a > user's home but I cant't fint anymore. > I wold like you to help me with this. >
packages are not supposed to touch /home. The rationale is pretty straight forward. Today you install package foo. It writes foo_rc to each dir in /home (or perhaps it reads passwd). Tomorrow you add a user. He does not have foo_rc. Also, /home may be on a network share and root may not have write permissions. This is quite common in office and school environments.
